• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated Tom Clayton has offered to post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

Orbx

Yes Bruce, in fact every time I click on my shortcut it wants to download 4 gig of forums?
 
Roger said:
Yes Bruce, in fact every time I click on my shortcut it wants to download 4 gig of forums?
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Thanks Roger, same problem here FTX Central says it's downloading but nothing seems to be happening.
Just wanted to check Sp5 for EU England.
 
Both the ORBX and OZx forums are giving me the same message. Wanting me to download something.
 
Orbx Download

I also get an instant download whenever I have tried either the FTX website or the Orbx Forums. I have deleted and not opened the downloaded files.

Bill
 
All of the above happening for several days now - the OZx site has virtually "sent me to Coventry" since Feb 2016 (read, download but no posting) - the ORBX site very slow to load, if accessible, then posts taking ages to be accepted and then duplicated - now both sites and FTX Central want to download a php.file.

I think the forum software on both sites was always seriously flawed since the last "upgrade" and now it seems they have been "hacked" sadly. A great shame.
 
Same here but d/l'ed central update. Now no orbx scenery. Something is amiss down under me thinks
 
I get a pop up asking what program will I use to open. I see now they are "Under maintenance , moving site " . I feel they have been attacked too , maybe.
 
Thanks for the heads up everyone. Personally, I wouldn't download or open up anything from the
Orbx site until the dust clears.

I did go into FTX Central, and before it could download anything (there was an alert at the top saying
there was an up date for FTX Central to be downloaded), I activated FTX Global in Hybrid mode,
and quickly got out again.

The FTX Global Hybrid mode should let me fly in any Orbx area with only a slight loss of autogen,
and not have to go back into FTX Central to change anything.

I guess we now wait for further announcements. Hopefully everything will be fixed by tomorrow.

Thanks - Rob
 
b52bob said:
Same here but d/l'ed central update. Now no orbx scenery. Something is amiss down under me thinks
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Thats how it's supposed to be after the new unified update. No more switching reagions if you did the "migration" which FTX Central wants you to do afterwards. :very_drunk:
EDIT: Ok maybe I missread your statement. In FTX Central you should still be able to see the installed regions and airports. There is just no "activate" button anymore.
 
greenie said:
I get a pop up asking what program will I use to open. I see now they are "Under maintenance , moving site " . I feel they have been attacked too , maybe.
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I followed up and from JK ,

Yes major server move happening

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With kind regards,


Jay


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I got this same message on Sunday David; I left it for a while and it eventually sorted itself out.
Just looked again now, and have the '500 Internal Server Error' message again!
Seems like they've still got troubles!
ChipShop:loyal:
 
I was on OrbX's site an hour ago with no problems, but am not confronted with the server error as well They must still be having problems.
 
Bruce Thompson said:
Still working here.

It has updated FTX Central 2 so that all regions are active all the time, only time you need to use it is when you add new scenery files.
Click to expand...

I think you can also use it for some automatic updates and to check if any of your add-ons require an updated download as well. I love the unified system.
 
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